Two large offshore wind power projects are to be launched to meet future energy needs. The Green Party’s spokesperson Per Bohlund welcomes the government’s announcement about 101 wind turbines on the West Coast.
– It is good that the government is now finally proceeding with the work that was started during our time in government. But that is only a first step. Much more wind power will be needed in the future, not least because the industry has a great need for renewable electricity to replace coal and oil, he tells SVT Nyheter.
– The government only gives permission to a small part of the Galatea-Galene park. Here, the government must give clear instructions to the defense to ensure that their activities do not hinder the large-scale expansion of wind power that Sweden needs, says Bolund.
He points to the need for wind power off the Skåne coast.
– For example Skåne Offshore Wind Park, which is ready for decision, because it is in Skåne and Electricity Area 4 that there is the greatest need for new electricity.
SD: “Haven’t been heard”
The Sweden Democrats have not been involved in the decision, states Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. The party’s economic policy spokesperson Tobias Andersson believes that the government failed to inform SD on wind power issues on three occasions. SD is against large-scale wind power.
– There we have problems that I raised with the state secretary and committee colleagues and that our coordinator raised in the coordination, but where we were clearly not heard, says Tobias Andersson to TT.
He thinks the issue should be raised to party leader level. Member of Parliament Jessica Stegrud (SD) is also critical.
“The government approves three large-scale offshore wind power projects in the belief that it will give us ‘a robust electricity system’ again… The chances are probably higher that it will become a symbol of ‘money in the lake’,” she writes on Twitter.
